One of the bigger stories of the day is this. Yes, regardless of one’s views on immigration, etc, it was a disgusting spectacle as this mother’s ignorance was on full display for all to see. But what’s this? Police launched an investigation after the video was brought to their attention on YouTube and [...]
Filed under: Annoyances, Current affairs, English Democrats, fail, Law and order | Tagged: police inefficiency, racism, tram | 11 Comments »
As I hope this blog makes abundantly clear, music is – to quote Frank Zappa – ‘the best’. Consequently, I type this surrounded by my guitars, recording equipment, amps and shelves and shelves full of recorded music. Several years ago – when I had hundreds of cassettes and vinyl LPs (remember those?) – I once [...]
Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Personal stuff, WHOA!, Win! | Tagged: a work of infinite beauty, Fire in the Hole, Rebecka Törnqvist, Sara Isaksson, Steely Dan, Swedish | 5 Comments »
Dame Fortune is a contrary old biddy. Who’d have thought that in a week when Channel 4 had this scheduled, that this would hit the headlines? Yes, it’s those zany Amish characters cropping up all over the fucking place in the media. The big news is in the US and concerns a bizarre case in [...]
Filed under: Bizarre, Current affairs, Entertainment, Media, Religion, TV, WTF? | Tagged: Amish, Channel 4, dirty old bastard, fucking sex and lots of it!, goatwank, reality TV, sex, yes | 1 Comment »
Found here: Yes Birmingham call Christmas ‘Winterval’ for 2 years in a storm of controversy quite a few years back! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval.. And I still encounter ‘winterval deniers’ who will not accept that it happened! What a fucking tool. He hasn’t just not bothered to read the Wikipedia article properly, where it states that the Daily [...]
Filed under: A shower of cunts, Annoyances, cunt, Current affairs, English Democrats, Total and utter bollocks, Total fucking bollocks, twat, Utter cunts, WHOA!, WTF? | Tagged: Daily Mail, Winterval | 1 Comment »
Fucking yawn.
Filed under: A shower of cunts, Annoyances, BBC, Sport, Total and utter bollocks, Total fucking bollocks | Tagged: bored off my fucking tits, London 2012, Olympics | Leave a Comment »
One of my favourite Georgia Satellite songs performed by my favourite Satellite, Dan Baird, with one of my favourite guitarists, Warner E Hodges (also in Jason and the Scorchers – another one of my favourite bands): As Dan sings… Good to see ya back again in the land of salvation and sin …I’m reminded [...]
Filed under: Europe, Ex-pat Life, France, Guitars, Local (Mayenne) news, Music | Tagged: Christmas, Dan Baird, fuckin' rawk!, Georgia Satellites, Homemade Sin, I Dunno, Jason and the Scorchers, land of salvation and sin, Warner E Hodges | 1 Comment »
Yes, Christmas is upon us once again. I like Christmas, in spite of all the crass commercialism and the attempts by all and sundry to get at the contents of my wallet. Indeed, I can put up with all the shops stocking Christmas cards in September and the TV ads exhorting me to BUY, BUY, [...]
Filed under: Current affairs, Bizarre, Annoyances, Media, Rant, Total and utter bollocks, twat, cunt, shit, Libertarianism, fail, BBC, English Democrats, Utter cunts, WHOA!, WTF?, A shower of cunts, The DTP | Tagged: Christmas, Winterval, Eric Pickles, Mark Santer, It's political correctness gone mad!, Birmingham City Council, myth, Baa Baa White Sheep, blackboards, utter dogwank, ignorance, Bishop of Birmingham | 1 Comment »
Yet another batch of emails from from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has been posted on the internet. (Link courtesy of the BBC web site.) There’s one very interesting little snippet that’s quickly emerged as a major embarrassment to the CRU: A text file included with the batch, apparently written by someone [...]
Filed under: BBC, climate change, CRU, Current affairs, Economics, University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, weather | Tagged: $37 billion, CRU, GDP, leaks, University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit | Leave a Comment »
Yes, it’s that time again when another 10 guitaristic delights get featured here for your listening pleasure. It’s worth reiterating that this is a very personal choice that will vary over time and the great guitar moments are placed in no particular order of merit – apart from the last one, of course, which will [...]
Filed under: Entertainment, Guitars, Music, Obsessions, WHOA! | Tagged: Albert Collins, Andy Partridge, Chris Goss, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory, Deep Purple, Duane Eddy, James Brown, Jimmy Nolen, Les Paul, Mary Ford, Masters of Reality, Richie Blackmore, Robert Johnson, Steve Vai, Steve Winwwod, the JBs, XTC | Leave a Comment »
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